The Edge of Midnight
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Chapter 17: Trimuph and Tragedy, Part II
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Can someone tell me how we missed another coup?” - Ken Wescott.The tottering government of Chancellor Lornak falls to the new, military order o...
Chapter 17: Triumph and Tragedy, Part 1
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The Parachute Officer – a young human woman – met the Ambassador at the steps. She was a little better turned out than our marines, but not ...
Chapter 16: You Say You Want A Revolution, Part 2
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The moral crisis we face cannot be fought by police action. It cannot be fought with phasers. It is a time to act in this council and their sub-counc...
Chapter 16: You Say You Want A Revolution, Part 1
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Mister Wescott look and see,Is there a reform in your bill for me?I been waiting a long, long time.Since I cast that vote of mine!”- Please Mist...
Chapter 15: Five Minutes to Midnight, Part 2
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, both in the Bet...
Chapter 15: Five Minutes to Midnight, Part 1
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I think I've had all the fill of Armageddon for one lifetime." - Sairose Fitzpatrick. Over Acamar, a total war is imminent. Everyone - Klingon, St...
Chapter 14: Acamarian Abyss
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Storm clouds gather over the planet of Acamar as Starfleet races to prevent the establishment of a Klingon foothold in their back yard. Read more at...
Chapter 13: Back in the KSSR
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Flew from Beta Rigel VI TOACDidn't get to bed last night,All the way my bat'leth was on my knee,Man, I've had a dreadful flight I'...
Chapter 12: Freedom of the Stars
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“An embargo if necessary, but not necessarily an embargo.” –Peter Broadhurst Outmatched by the Klingon fleet, the Federation flexes its econ...
Chapter 11: Arthimetic on the Frontier
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“A scrimmage in a Border Station -- A canter down some dark defile --Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail --The Crammer&...
Chapter 10: No Peace in Our Time
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s only fair the nobility gets hung from lampposts. If we don’t do it, Sturka will.” – Savan joke. As the might of Klingon central pow...
Chapter 9: The Rakjatino Revolution
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Klingons don’t do revolutions. At least, I thought they didn’t.” – Matthew Decker. As Starfleet reels from the disaster at Caleb IV, Klin...
Chapter 8: Debacle at Caleb IV
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Caleb IV was an avoidable tactical disaster, but an unavoidable operational one. Thank god it happened when it did.” – Angella Fukuhara Star...
Chapter 7: The Suliban Crisis
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“All along the watchtower, princes kept the viewWhile all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.Outside in the distance, a wildcat did gro...
Chapter 6: The Strategic Earthquake
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The impact of escalated Orion piracy...can be understood as nothing less than a complete and irrevocable upheaval. If a disaster is to be averted...
Chapter 5: Mother Knows Best
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What does peace mean to the Klingon Empire? Nothing. It is a concept they have no use for, or real understanding of – even all their words for it...
Chapter 4: The Redshirt Election
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I’ll be honest, Ken, I deserved that.” - President Barreuco, to Kenneth Wescott, after losing the Vote of No Confidence, April 4th, 2258 "You ...
Chapter 3: A Crisis of Deliberate Indecision
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“When a President loses a war, there are consequences where they want them or not. When a President refuses to admit he lost the war because he was ...
Chapter 2: The Ch'Shukar Report
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“What’s worse than Starfleet not approving the ship you want to build? Starfleet approving the ship they want to build.” —Matt Jeffries to Lau...
Chapter 1: The Ploughshare Navy
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Until we have enough ships to match the D7 whenever it appears,we will never regain anything close to the security we once had inthe Klingon Border...
Prologue: The Great Game
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Conquest is Easy. Control is Not." - James T. Kirk. EDGE OF MIDNIGHT is written by Seamus Devenish, and read by Stephen Van Doren. Read more a...
Introduction
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all live in the shadow of the Klingon Cold War. EDGE OF MIDNIGHT is written by Seamus Devenish, and read by Stephen Van Doren. Read more at https:/...